Three Modern Romance Languages That Preserve The Latin Neuter Gender
Today we pick up where we left off last week... with more discussion of the legacy of Latin's neuter gender in the modern Romance languages!
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Danny Bate, “The Decline and Fall of the Latin Neuter,” Danny L. Bate (blog), March 2021. https://dannybate.com/2021/03/15/the-...
Sarah Elizabeth Harmon, Gender in the Romance Languages: An Evolutionary Approach (dissertation), August 2007. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/s...
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Andreea Nicolae & Gregory Scontras, “The Progression of Gender from Latin to Romanian,” Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics, 2015. https://www.academia.edu/19563354/The...
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